Seattle illustrator Andrew Lueck was inspired by his daughters to create Chicabee, a wide-eyed girl with white-blond hair, rendered in stylized computer graphics for readers 4 to 8. Chicabee loves to try on clothes, ride her bike, doodle fancy dresses, make fabulous ice cream desserts, practice her Spanish, play with her dog Yappy and her cat Sparkle, and order a double, short, lukewarm, no foam, marshmallow hot chocolate at the neighborhood café. Lueck gives us a confident girl in a well-ordered life, who navigates her rainy Emerald City like an independent young woman but who also lives at home with her younger sister Little-O.